Preparations for Programming Assignments

1. We will discuss the programming in the class, and assign some programming assignment. Please get the following preparations.
2. I will not require you write your own programs. Instead, I will ask you to test some well written programs. We will use the programs that accompany the book “Fundamentals of Numerical Computing” written by L. F. Shampine, R. C. Allen, Jr., and S. Pruess.
3. The source codes are currently available by anonymous ftp at ftp.wiley.com.  You may use anonymous as your user name and use you email address as your password. Then, cd public/college/math/sapcodes to get the source codes.
4. I suggest that you use C or C++ programs. However, you may also use FORTRAN 77 or Fortran 90.